Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-11-10

Bellies Bros store In Orion was bur-
glariZed OF 500 worth of goods the other
day. The safe, in which wa considerable
money, was left untouched.
Hunters in the northern part of the state
last week killed two bucks that had locked
horns fighting and could not part. The
bucks weighed over 400 pounds.
1t Is now practically settled that the
Chicago Kalamazoo ~ Saginaw railroad
will be bull to the Sagnaws from Hast
ings, via Portland d ST. Johns.
Lieut., John Findlay, L. S. A. who
halls from Ypsilanti, has invented a hello
graph signal instrument, which has
been adopted by the government.
The state horticultural society and the
Michigan beekeepers' association will
come together and hold communion at
Fast Saginaw Dec. 6, z s, 0 and II.
Sixteen clerks were discharged from
the Auditor Generals Office the other day,
some Internationally, others to be rein
stated when the work of the Office re luires
them.
Mrs Laughlin of Mt. Pleasant was in
jured about three years ago by the up
setting of vehicle by Grand Rapids
street car. She has just been awarded
81, $50 damages.
Henry Pangborn's barns and outbuild-
ings burned near Bad Axe with forty tons
of hay, farm implements, etc. Loss 80, 900;
insurance 81. 500. believed to have beer
set fire by thieves.
Trains will lie running on the Toledo
Ann ArbOr q Cad lilac railroad by Dec /.
This road will have an immense adyant-
age over its competitors in tie north be-
cause Of its light grades.
John White and James Wells of Amboy,
Hilsdale county, quarreled about ditch
The men came to blows. and Wells struck
White on the head with a club, in letting
an injury which proved fatal.
A young man named +. GOsse tried to
crawl un ,e. a train OF cars at NcwaygO
and tie train starte up cutting him in
two and scattering his remains along the
track He was an unmarried man.
Clement Bellac of Lake Linden has been
fined S43 for cruelty TO animals. lie left
a team a week without food or water and
one horse starved to death, while the 9TH
er was so reduced that it h9I 70 '32ee S5hG'..
Gqsrge Burrows, the young man pushed
I from the train at st. Paul and killed, was
steps II oil i. :. Burrows. Sheridan boot
and shoe dealer. lie is said to have been
honest, hardWOrking, temperate and intel
igent.
Michigan oa,ds of supervisors in many
in stances have choked the life out Of the
state game law by refusing to make the
salaries Of the deputy waIdenspnough to
make it any object for them to attend to
the duties.
Dr. j. L. Near of Flat Rock, has just
4 hot Ire al
| Oneida, \. Y, is dead. Had she lived
until next February she would have been
104 years old. Her Michigan son is 20
! years of age.
President Bradley and Marshal Bagley
of Ovid have been capiased by w. w.
| Winchell of the salvation army, because
he was arrested in September and locked
up fora couple Of hours. The village will
stand by its officers.
Andrew J. BlacBbird, son of an Otta-
wa chief, who was a scholar in the state
normal school in 1878 has written his
| tory of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
of this state, and it is to include a gram
mar of the Chippewa language.
Michigan men who are interested in the
! Star Mountain mine, near Brecken-
ridge, Col, have been out there of late to
see how the old thing works, and come
back saying everything is lovely at the
mine and the investment is solid.
The East Saginaw Herald says that
when the new railroad to that town Is in
| operation, the Grand Trunk will run
trains over it from Detroit and Chicago
via the Detroit, Grand Haven IL Mil
waukee and Chicago ~ Grand Trunk.
j. p. Woodbury., for many years one of
the leading business men OF Kalamazoo,
was returning from hunting expedition
with party of friends, when the horses
ran away throwing al out. Mr.. Wood
bury was SO badly injured that he died
the next day.
J. f. McKenner, brakeman on the
Detroit, Lansing 81 Northern railroad,
while attempting to get on an engine at
Bedding, fell and his right leg was crushed
in terrible manner. He was brought to
Ionia but survived amputation of the
limb only a few hours.
Stephen Pew, a brakeman on a freight
train on the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail
road, fell under the cars while the engine
was switching at Kalkaska and was so
badly manged that his right arm and leg
had to be amputated. Pew lives at Grand
Rapids, where he has wife.
Mrs. Jane Douglas has just been award
cd, in the United States court at Bay City,
a verdict of SO, 600 for injuries received
by defective sidewalk on the approach
to the Third street fridge i'm that city.
! She was permanently crippled, but the
| verdict is considered excessive and the case
will be appealed.
For some reason the board of control of
the state school for the blind recently had
iron bars place at the windows of the
rooms of all the employees except the
teachers. BY way Of resenting what they
/ considered an insult seven employees of
both sexes have resigned their positions.
The feeling over the matter is strong.
Mrs. J. O. Bancroft of Vassar was stricIl-
en- with paralysis the other day and died
about an hour afterward. She was So
years old and widow of the late Rev. J. O.
Bancroft, who died in precisely the same
manner four years ago. Mrs. Bancroft
was a leading member of the w. g. Il. T.,
and widely known throughout the state.
home for aged Baptist ministers has
been established at Fenton. A $40, 900
building, beautiful stone edifice, has
been generously donated, and l6 acres of
land are included In the gift. Now SO, 900
are required at once to put the building
in proper shape for occupancy. Th0eon-
tributi0ns for the last year amounted to
$40, 0l2'09.
While the inquest on the body of Mrs.
James lIoag, who suicided in Adrian re-
Gently, was in progress, Miss Gertrude
King the chief witness, fell asleep and
the inquest had to be adjourned until she